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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

William James

… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things

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