Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
WILLIAM JAMESThe union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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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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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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