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William James

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics

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