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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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

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