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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

William James

New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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 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 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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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

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