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William James

Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

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