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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
[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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