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

William James

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES

Decision Order Responsibility
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test

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