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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity

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