“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.” ~ William James (January 11, 1842 to August 26, 1910)
William James was an American physician, psychologist, philosopher, intellectual, writer, and essayist. He was the brother of Henry James (novelist) and Alice James (diarist).
[Source for quotation: @mister_quotes tweet on Twitter, December 21, 2010. Dates and biographical information from Wikipedia, accessed September 22, 2010].
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