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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

William James

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

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