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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Pay Quality Supreme
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith

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