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

William James

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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Art Force Process
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
WILLIAM JAMES

Character Mean Organization
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
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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Habit Principles Thinking
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant

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