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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

William James

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision

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