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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

William James

All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
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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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History

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