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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
[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

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