There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
WILLIAM JAMES[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
More William James Quotes
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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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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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