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

William James

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Motivational Positive
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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

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

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