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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
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 great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels

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