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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

William James

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
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
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

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