[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
WILLIAM JAMESWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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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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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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