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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

William James

That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

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