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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

William James

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas

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