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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.

William James

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise

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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