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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

William James

Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree

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