To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
WILLIAM JAMESDemocracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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