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

William James

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
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
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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.
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Men Mind Way
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely

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