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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth

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