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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

William James

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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 question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

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