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That which is most personal, is most interesting.

William James

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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter

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