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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

William James

All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical

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