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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

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
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

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