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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James

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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

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