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— William James"The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse."
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It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.
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