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The strenuous life tastes better

William James

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant

The strenuous life tastes better

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