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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean

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