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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

William James

That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise

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