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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

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
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

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