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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

William James

The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

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