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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

William James

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
[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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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 sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

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