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Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

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

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

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Belief creates the actual fact.

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

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 11th, 1842

Died: August 26th, 1910

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