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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

William James

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions

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