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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

William James

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

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