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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

William James

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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
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
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud

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