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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

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
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
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 impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

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