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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
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
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real

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