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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men

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