All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMESWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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History is a bath of blood.
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