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

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
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
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
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence

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