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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy

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