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

William James

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal

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