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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

William James

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

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