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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

William James

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Effort Forget Hard Work
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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

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