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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.

William James

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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
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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Example Human Nature Proud
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
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
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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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Beast Kind Men
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing

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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