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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated

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