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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

William James

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

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