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William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking

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