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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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 difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

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