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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
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 religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely

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