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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

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