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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

William James

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
[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
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMES

Die Education Philosophical
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual

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