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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

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