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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

William James

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
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
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
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World

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