Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMESA sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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New habits can be launched.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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