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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

William James

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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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