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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

William James

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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

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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