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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

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMES

Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
WILLIAM JAMES

Belief Desire Truth
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
WILLIAM JAMES

Fears Form Great Life Things
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
WILLIAM JAMES

Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Force Process
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMES

Affection Alpha Omega
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMES

Culture Life Real
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
WILLIAM JAMES

Country Teacher Teaching
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

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