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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.

William James

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
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School

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