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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

William James

That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
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
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated

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