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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

William James

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

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