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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

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress

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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