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The strenuous life tastes better

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics

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