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

William James

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
WILLIAM JAMES

Block Data Mind
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
WILLIAM JAMES

Attitude Procrastination Tasks
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated

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