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.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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