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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

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics

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