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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire

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