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

William James

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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons

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

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