So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMESGenius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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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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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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