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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

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self

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