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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

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
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
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme

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