But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
WILLIAM JAMESBut facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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