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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

William James

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
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
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise

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