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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

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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Beast Kind Men
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World

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