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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

William James

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
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels

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