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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

William James

… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression

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