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

William James

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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 more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality

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