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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise

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