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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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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Political Volunteer War
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No

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