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All religions begin with the cry Help.

William James

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics

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