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

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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

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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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Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

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