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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

William James

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

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