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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules

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