History is a bath of blood.
WILLIAM JAMESAsceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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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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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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