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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth

William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive

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