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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression

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