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

William James

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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 education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical

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