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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James
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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
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
William James
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William James
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
William James
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
William James
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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.
William James
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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.
William James
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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.
William James
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William James
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James
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