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

William James

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
[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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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