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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.

William James

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind

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