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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy

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