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

William James

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion

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

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