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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

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want

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