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

William James

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre

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