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Individuality is founded in feeling

William James

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom

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