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

William James

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith

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

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