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Individuality is founded in feeling

William James

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant

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