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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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

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