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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

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 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
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy

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