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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
WILLIAM JAMES

Evil Healthy Individual
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMES

Creativity Mean Science
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Medicine Philosophy
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste

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