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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

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
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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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Law Science Together
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas

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