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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

William James

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
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 strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
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
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views

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