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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda

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