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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

William James

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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Mind Philosophy Quiet
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre

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