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

William James

Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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

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