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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

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
WILLIAM JAMES

Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship

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