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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

William James

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive

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