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William James

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
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
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
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No

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