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William James

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

Firsts Lecture Psychology
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Habit 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.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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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Devil Feet Long
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

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