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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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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Law Science Together
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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Choices Differences Men Savage
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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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Cash Experience Stream
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 impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision

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