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" Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. "

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" The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. "

" The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. "

" Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. "

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" Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. "

" How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. "

" The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck. "

" Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. "

" Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. "

" This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. "

" There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. "

" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. "

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" The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. "

" Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. "

" We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. "

" To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. "

" The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. "

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" Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. "

" If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. "

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" Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. "

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" In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. "

" The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. "

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