The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMESTrue to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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