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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

William James

Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

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