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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

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

Individual Men Self
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
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMES

Math Passion Union
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Inspirational Philosophy
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion

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