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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

William James

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test

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