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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

William James

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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