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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May

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