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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
WILLIAM JAMES

Becoming Great Focus Woods
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

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