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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

William James

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude

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