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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

William James

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

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