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William James

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMES

Culture Life Real
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
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.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMES

Change Life Philosophical
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological

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