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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
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
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
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
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason

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