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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

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 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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth

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