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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

William James

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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

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