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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

William James

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
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
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet

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