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

William James

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
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
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
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
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing

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