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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

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