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Individuality is founded in feeling

William James

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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
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 ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self

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