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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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Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self

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