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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

William James

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
WILLIAM JAMES

Action Emotion Inspiration
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
WILLIAM JAMES

Evil Healthy Individual
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bells Tolls Truth
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

All Fields Instant Time
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cash Experience Stream

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