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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

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda

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