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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do

William James

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do

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