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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

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
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 ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
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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Example Human Nature Proud
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher

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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