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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
WILLIAM JAMES

Demanded Everything Facts
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMES

Business Inspirational Philosophical
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Briefly Thinking True Way
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Small Rooms Thinking
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely

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