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

William James

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
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive

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