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

William James

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together

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