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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

William James

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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 question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods

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