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William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
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
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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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 deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

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