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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
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
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
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy

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