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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

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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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
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
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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