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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

William James

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
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
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

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