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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life

William James

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream

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