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William James

That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time

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