All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
WILLIAM JAMESBut facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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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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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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