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

William James

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
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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

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