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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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
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
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

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