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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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 first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

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