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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

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

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