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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

William James

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

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