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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

William James

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge

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