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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
[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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History

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