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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

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
WILLIAM JAMES

Philosophical Prayer Worry
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMES

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

Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspire Mean Truth
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
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Ideas Truth
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
WILLIAM JAMES

Agony Individual Lonely

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