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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

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
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
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 instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched

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