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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

William James

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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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 instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence

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