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

William James

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
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

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