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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

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

Community Friendship Sympathy
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMES

Affection Alpha Omega
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
WILLIAM JAMES

Asceticism Ease Expression
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMES

Deny Neglect Wise
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMES

Die Education Philosophical

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