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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.

William James

Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
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
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
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
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological

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