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

William James

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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

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