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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History

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