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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

William James

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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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