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

William James

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
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Men Philosophy
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
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

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