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

William James

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs

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