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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality

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