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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical

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