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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
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

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

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