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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

William James

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
WILLIAM JAMES

Energy Mean Pain
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Knowledge Science
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
WILLIAM JAMES

Objects Truth World
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
WILLIAM JAMES

Failure Lows Person
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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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