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

William James

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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Briefly Thinking True Way
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
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
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy

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