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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

William James

The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching

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