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" The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. "
William James
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" Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. "
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" The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. "
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" Belief creates the actual fact. "
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" What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! "
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" If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. "
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" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. "
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" The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. "
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" If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. "
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" Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. "
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" Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference. "
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" It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. "
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" The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. "
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" Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. "
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" The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. "
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" Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. "
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You
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" A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. "
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" To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. "
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Radical
Nor
" Truth is what works. "
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Truth Is
" The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. "
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Life
Argument
" When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. "
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Choice
Itself
Make
" It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. "
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" Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. "
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" Man lives for science as well as bread. "
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Well
Science
" In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. "
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Doing
" To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. "
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Way
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" There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. "
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" Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. "
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" The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. "
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" If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. "
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