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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

William James

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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts

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