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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

William James

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
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
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality

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