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

William James

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts

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