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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

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