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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

William James

History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself

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