Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

William James
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  2. Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are. - Roy T. Bennett

  3. Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does. - Roy T. Bennett

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  1. The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.

  2. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

  3. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

  4. Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true, " it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if...

  5. See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases, and generalises. Truth, for him, becomes a class-name for all sorts of definite working-values in experience. For the rationalist it remains...

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