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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.

William James

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational

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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