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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

William James

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
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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Alive Cost Wall
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking

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