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Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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Contribution #3772
When helping the wounded, Honesty is secondary to Healing!
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Contribution #3631
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
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Science is organized common sense--where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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Every great idea starts as a movement, becomes a business and turns into a scam.
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I wish I could remember wher I heard this.
Contribution #2840
While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.
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Ethics for the New Millenium
Page 52
Published by Riverhead Books
, New York
, 2001
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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You simply can’t make someone love you if they don’t. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works.
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The True Patriot
Page 34
Published by True Patriot Network
, Seattle, USA
, 2007
http://truepat.org
Contribution #1658
You better think about the future, for it's where you will spend the rest of your life.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity;
and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language,
nationality, or religion.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to
change the world.
[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.
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William James
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Contribution #447
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"
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William James
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #446
What does pragmatism look like in a person?
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