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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

William James

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
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
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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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