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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.

William James

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Laughter Men
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Islands Roots Sea Underground
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
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.
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Law Science Together
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Leadership Motivation Philosophical
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
WILLIAM JAMES

Decide Shaped Views World

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.

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