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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

William James

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree

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