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William James

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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 discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree

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