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

William James

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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 strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy

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