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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

William James

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural

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