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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression

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