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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

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