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.
WILLIAM JAMESThe strenuous life tastes better
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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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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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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