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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

William James

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom

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