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" We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh. "
William James
Happy
Laugh
Because
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" Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. "
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" Truth is what works. "
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Truth Is
" The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. "
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Will
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" Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. "
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" If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. "
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" A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. "
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People
Great
" There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. "
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True
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" If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. "
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" No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. "
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Character
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" The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. "
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Prayer
Sovereign
Worry
" Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. "
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Living
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" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. "
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Appreciated
Nature
Human Nature
" 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. "
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Together
Will
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" In business for yourself, not by yourself. "
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Business
Yourself
" The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. "
William James
Business
Retail
Laws
" Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. "
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Positive
Weakness
Power
" The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. "
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Said
Breathe
Think
" It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. "
William James
Wrong
Always
Believe
" 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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Work
Character
Done
" Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. "
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Genius
Way
Than
" Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. "
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Which
Faith
Belief
" This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. "
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Life
Worth Living
Worth
" We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. "
William James
Find
Cling
Life
" 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
" Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. "
William James
Matters
Most
Someone
" The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. "
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Clash
Great
History
" When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. "
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Choice
Itself
Make
" If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. "
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Result
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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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Fact
Thoughts
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" To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. "
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Awareness
Being
Known