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

William James

The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy

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