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

William James

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics

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