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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

William James

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean

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