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William James

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
[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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking

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