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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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