Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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