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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

William James

All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
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
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long

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