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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

William James

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Medicine Philosophy
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
WILLIAM JAMES

Example Human Nature Proud
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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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Bystanders Eye Teaching
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom

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