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

William James

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical

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