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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

William James

The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
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
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
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine 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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing

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