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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

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