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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

William James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts

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