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

William James

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
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality

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

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