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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.

William James

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive

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