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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

William James

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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