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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
WILLIAM JAMES

Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
[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
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Esteem Leadership Quality Self
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Leadership Motivation Philosophical
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Science Together
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Creativity Desire

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