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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
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 general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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 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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

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