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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
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
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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.
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Flux Names Reflection
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky

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