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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely

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