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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

William James

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet

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