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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.

William James

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
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
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
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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