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

William James

What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
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 teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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

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