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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

William James

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth

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