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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
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
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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