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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

William James

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth

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