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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

William James

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter

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