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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

William James

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological

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