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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

William James

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
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
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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

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