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

William James

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
WILLIAM JAMES

Data Powerful Science
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
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
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

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