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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.

William James

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination

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