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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

William James

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

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