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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
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
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
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

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