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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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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Islands Roots Sea Underground
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization

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