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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

William James

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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way

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