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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

William James

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
[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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
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Educational Men Philosophy
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive

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