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All religions begin with the cry Help.

William James

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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
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
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
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
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination

All religions begin with the cry Help.

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