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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

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
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
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
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
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES

God Principles Theism
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMES

Life Stay Strong Ties
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMES

Changing Immediately Life Want
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
WILLIAM JAMES

Intellectual Men Order
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMES

Boiling Experience Over Way
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES

Positive Wisdom Wise

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