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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

William James

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
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
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated

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