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WILLIAM JAMESEverybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
More William James Quotes
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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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
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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