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All religions begin with the cry Help.

William James

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things

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