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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

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground

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