To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
WILLIAM JAMESThe aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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