The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESOrganization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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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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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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