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

William James

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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 most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness

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