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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky

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