Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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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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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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History is a bath of blood.
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New habits can be launched.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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