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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMES

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

Believe Men Needs
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Civilization Class Fear
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
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 difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts

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