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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

William James

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World

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