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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

William James

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
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 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
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
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

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

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