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" If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. "
William James
Sick
Becomes
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" 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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" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "
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" To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. "
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Known
" Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. "
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Quality
Whatever
" Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. "
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Copy
Interaction
" Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. "
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Acceptance
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" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. "
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Nature
Human Nature
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Cling
Life
" Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. "
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May
Happiness
" Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. "
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Character
Done
" The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. "
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Breathe
Think
" The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. "
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Living
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" It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. "
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Task
Attitude
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Something
Will
Greatest
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Secret
Men
Endure
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World
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