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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

William James

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics

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