It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
WILLIAM JAMESTo 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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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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