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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization

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