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

William James

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People

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