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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

William James

The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher

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