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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

William James

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
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
[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
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
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling

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