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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

William James

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking

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