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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

William James

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Men Needs
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Broken Concepts Reality

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