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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

William James

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

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