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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

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