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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

William James

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
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
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person

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