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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

William James

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

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