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"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."
"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."
"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."
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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."
"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."
"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another."
"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."
"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope."
"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
"The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse."
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