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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

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
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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

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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