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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no m

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With good intentions, hell proverbially is paved. – William James

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! – William James

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Faith
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If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. – William James

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Hell is paved with good intentions. – John Ray

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Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. – Ben Stein

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The best-laid schemes o mice an men
Gang aft agley. – Robert Burns

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. – J. G. Gallimore

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True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. – Edward Frederick Halifax

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Being in a pageant is not just about beauty. Its more about service to the community and being a role model and making a difference. Its being proud of your city. Its all what you put into it… – Chantel Giamanco

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Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. – Lewis Thomas

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That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another’s labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public. – Lord Ellenborough, quoted in Bouvier’s Law Dictionary by John Bouvier, 8th

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