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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

William James

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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 know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal

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