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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

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation 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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality

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