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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

William James

There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men 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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth

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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