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

William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

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