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

William James

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation

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