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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

William James

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
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
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound 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
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
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

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