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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

William James

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical

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