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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

William James

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
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
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 ‘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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism

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