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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

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology

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