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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

William James

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People

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