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Truth happens to an idea

William James

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Man, 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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Beast Kind Men
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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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Educational Men Philosophy
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People

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