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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

William James

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy

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