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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

William James

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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
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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Mean Reality Truth
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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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Where 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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Pay Quality Supreme
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science

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