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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching

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