It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we liv…

William James
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ✨ William James (1956). The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality, p.59, Courier Corporation
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