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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth

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