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" When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. "
William James
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" Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. "
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" Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. "
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" Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference. "
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" There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. "
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" The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck. "
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" To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. "
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