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

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People

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