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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Broken Concepts Reality
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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 intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years

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