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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

William James

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits

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