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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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