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Individuality is founded in feeling

William James

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth

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