Time itself comes in drops.
WILLIAM JAMESReligious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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History is a bath of blood.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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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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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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