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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
WILLIAM JAMES

Habit Past Self
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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 aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMES

Clever Motivational Procrastination

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