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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

William James

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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
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 deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

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