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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

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

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