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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

William James

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
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
WILLIAM JAMES

Flux Names Reflection
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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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Men Mind Way

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

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