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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
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

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