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" Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. "
William James
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" In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. "
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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. "
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" There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. "
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" Man lives for science as well as bread. "
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" To spend life for something which outlasts it. "
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" There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. "
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" We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh. "
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" What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! "
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" It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. "
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" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "
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" The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. "
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" Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. "
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" Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. "
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" Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. "
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" Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. "
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" Belief creates the actual fact. "
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" Time itself comes in drops. "
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" Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. "
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" We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. "
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" We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. "
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" Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. "
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" The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. "
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" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. "
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" If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. "
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" Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. "
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