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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

William James

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
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

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