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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

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men

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