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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

Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
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
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection

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