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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

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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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Devil Feet Long
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test

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