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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

William James

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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

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