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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. – William James

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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. – William James

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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. – William James

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I believe in prayer. Its the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. – Josephine Baker

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes Raise the sail with your stronger hand, meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do. – Soichiro Honda

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Thats what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis its fair, because people would be the best if they werent discriminated against. – Rush Limbaugh

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