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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence

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