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Individuality is founded in feeling

William James

Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational

Individuality is founded in feeling

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