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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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 emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

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