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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

William James

All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use

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