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"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
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"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."
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"To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation."
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"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."
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"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
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"Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows."
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"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
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"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours', as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that."
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"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
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"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
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"Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can, Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!"
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"Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else."
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"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
Envy
"The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise."
Action
"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
Quality
"Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic."
Fact
"The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking."
Nature
"All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite."
Evolution
"It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system."
Belief
"Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment."
First
"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."
Chaos
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