“Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, whi...”
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Henry James, was an American writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James
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“Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, whi...”
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“So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has...”
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“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
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“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”
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“Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
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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 indi...”
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“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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“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 suc...”
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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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“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
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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.”
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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...”
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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
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“Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.”
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“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
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“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
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“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”
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“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”
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“In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.”
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“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”
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