The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMESOur 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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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History is a bath of blood.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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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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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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