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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

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

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