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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

William James

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely

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