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" A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. "
William James
Many
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" Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. "
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" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "
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" Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. "
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" The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. "
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" Belief creates the actual fact. "
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" If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. "
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" Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. "
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" Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. "
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" Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. "
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" If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. "
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" Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. "
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" Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. "
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" To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. "
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Way
Understanding
" Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. "
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" A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. "
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Chain
" Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. "
William James
Action
May
Happiness
" To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. "
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Real
Hate
Necessary
" We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. "
William James
Statement
Clear
Never
" 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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Task
Attitude
" The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. "
William James
Thought
Great
Choose
" Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. "
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Soul
Life
Habit
" The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. "
William James
Clash
Great
History
" The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. "
William James
Community
Individual
Sympathy
" There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. "
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Other
One Thing
Only
" In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. "
William James
Start
Background
Doing
" What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! "
William James
Man
Genuine
Fact
" Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. "
William James
Together
Will
Control
" Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. "
William James
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" Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. "
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Thoughts
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" Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. "
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