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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

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen 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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years

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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