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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

William James

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision

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