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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

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

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