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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

William James

Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

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