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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

William James

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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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Choices Differences Men Savage
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

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