Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
WILLIAM JAMESOrganization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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History is a bath of blood.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Truth happens to an idea
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