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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

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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

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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