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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

William James

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
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical

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