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

William James

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural

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