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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

William James

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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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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Book Cat Conservations Dog
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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

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