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

William James

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere

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