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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

William James

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy

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