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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use

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