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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

William James

… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy

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