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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

William James

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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest

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