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Faculty Quotes by William James
- Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
- The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which…
- Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- 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…
- Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way
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