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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

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
[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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
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
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched

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