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

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
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 greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

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