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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude

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