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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

William James

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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

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