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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

William James

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
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
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical

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