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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

William James

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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