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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
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
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion

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