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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.

William James

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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
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 world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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