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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

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
WILLIAM JAMES

Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
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
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Parts Small Use

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