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

William James

Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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

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