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William James

The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth

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