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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men

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