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William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
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 most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization

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