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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

William James

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
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
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

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