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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

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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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