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William James

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science

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