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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

William James

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
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
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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance

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