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Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William James

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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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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 difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical

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