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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

William James

Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

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