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

William James

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
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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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Art Force Process
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
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion

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