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

William James

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation

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