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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
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

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