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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

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