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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
[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
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
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
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

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

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