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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

William James

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Science Together

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

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