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William James

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
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
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men

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