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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

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise

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