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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe People Propaganda
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
WILLIAM JAMES

Data Powerful Science
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
WILLIAM JAMES

Grace Order Unseen
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Moving Subconscious World

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