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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

William James

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
WILLIAM JAMES

Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History

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