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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.

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Memories Philosophy

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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