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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy

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