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

William James

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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
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

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