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

William James

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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 sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical

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