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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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
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
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

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