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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James

… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire

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