As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMESThe difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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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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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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History is a bath of blood.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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