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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

William James

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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

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