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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

William James

Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
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
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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self

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