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The strenuous life tastes better

William James

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
WILLIAM JAMES

Intellectual Men Order

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