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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

William James

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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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