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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
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
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views

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