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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

William James

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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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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 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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success

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