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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

William James

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 instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight

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