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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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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Pay Quality Supreme
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection

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