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

William James

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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 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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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 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
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People

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