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

William James

There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly

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