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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

William James

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

Firsts Lecture Psychology
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union

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