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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

William James

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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
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
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere

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