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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
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.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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

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