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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.

William James

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.

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