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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
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
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success

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