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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

William James

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

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