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

William James

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
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
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter

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