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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

William James

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge

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