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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

William James

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing

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