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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

William James

Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

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