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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship

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