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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

William James

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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical

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