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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

William James

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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire

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