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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
WILLIAM JAMES

Free Race Vagueness Will
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
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
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 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
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud

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