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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

William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together

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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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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