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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.

William James

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMES

Important Realizing Teacher
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Pay Quality Supreme
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mean Men Solitude
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
WILLIAM JAMES

Briefly Thinking True Way
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
WILLIAM JAMES

Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
WILLIAM JAMES

Evil Healthy Individual
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
WILLIAM JAMES

Islands Roots Sea Underground

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