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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

William James

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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
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

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