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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

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