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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

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 ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
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.
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Men Mind Way
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical

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