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All religions begin with the cry Help.

William James

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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

All religions begin with the cry Help.

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