"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.“

-William James

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William James quote about Life: "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

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"Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."

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"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."

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"Truth is what works."

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"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them."

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