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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

William James

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify

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