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

William James

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
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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
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
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts

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