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

William James

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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

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