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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

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
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
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
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
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

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