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William James

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical

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