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William James

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual

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