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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

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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

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