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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Force Process
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
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
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMES

Changing Immediately Life Want
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
WILLIAM JAMES

Esteem Failure Inspirational Self

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