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All religions begin with the cry Help.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality

All religions begin with the cry Help.

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