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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

William James

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMES

Creativity Mean Science
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMES

Heroism Reality Theatre

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

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