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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
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
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical

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