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Individuality is founded in feeling

William James

The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree

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