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The education of attention would be an education par excellence

William James

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual

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