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

William James

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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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Believe Ideas 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
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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.
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Anticipation Brave Use
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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties

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