Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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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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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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