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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

William James

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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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Block Data Mind
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega

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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