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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

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Philosophy School
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
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 new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

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