Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMESSo 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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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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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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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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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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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.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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