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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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 people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy

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