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

William James

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
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
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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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