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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

William James

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
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
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things

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