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WILLIAM JAMESHabit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
More William James Quotes
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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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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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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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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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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