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

William James

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying

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