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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success

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