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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

William James

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
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
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self 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
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
WILLIAM JAMES

Evil Healthy Individual

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

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