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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

William James

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
[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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
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
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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

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