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

William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive

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