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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.

William James

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth

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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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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