In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.William James
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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