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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

William James

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
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
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
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
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely

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