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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight

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