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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

William James

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion

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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