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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

William James

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
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

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