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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

William James

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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
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
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence

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