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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

William James

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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

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