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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
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 people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking

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