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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

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Inspirational Philosophy
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality

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