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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

William James

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time

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