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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES

Positive Wisdom Wise
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
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
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre

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