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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

William James

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense

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