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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. ↗

— William James

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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. ↗

— William James

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My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability. ↗

— Thomas Jane

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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ↗

— William James

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There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. ↗

— William James

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ↗

— William James

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

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