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

William James

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

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

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