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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

William James

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason

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