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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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 lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

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