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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

William James

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Civilization Class Fear
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bystanders Eye Teaching
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMES

Able Accompanying Thinking
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMES

Deny Neglect Wise
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
WILLIAM JAMES

Alive Attitude Authenticity
All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cry Helping Religion

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