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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Pay Quality Supreme
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
WILLIAM JAMES

Growth Men Years
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Mind Way

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