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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

William James

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely

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