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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

William James

That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
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

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