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

William James

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
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
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
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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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