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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.

William James

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

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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