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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success

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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