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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

William James

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology

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