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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.

William James

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People

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