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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

William James

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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bystanders Eye Teaching
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness

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