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Results from Cole's Quotables:

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.: William James (1842 - 1910)
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.: William James (1842 - 1910)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.: William James (1842 - 1910)
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.: William James (1842 - 1910)

Results from Poor Man's College:

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.: William James (1842 - 1910)
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 (1842 - 1910)
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.: William James (1842 - 1910)
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.: William James (1842 - 1910)
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.: William James (1842 - 1910)
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.: William James (1842 - 1910)

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