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All religions begin with the cry Help.

William James

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

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