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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise

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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