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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

William James

The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person

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