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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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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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