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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

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 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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy

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