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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

William James

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
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
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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 world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long

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