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

William James

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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 deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success

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

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