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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

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
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

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