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

William James

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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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Pay Quality Supreme
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere

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

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