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William James

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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
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
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
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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 education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth

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