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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
WILLIAM JAMES

Humorous Life Philosophical
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
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
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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy

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