There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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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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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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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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