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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

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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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMES

Circles People Sith
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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 intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage

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