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William James

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science

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