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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMES

Clever Motivational Procrastination
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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 must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Men Philosophy
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression

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