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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. ↗

— William James

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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. ↗

— William James

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Hard times always lead to something great. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. ↗

— William James

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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 sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— 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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. ↗

— St. Jerome

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There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. ↗

— 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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