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

William James

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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World

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