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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

William James

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
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
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
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
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility

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