Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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