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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.

William James

There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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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Finals Lasts Men
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men

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