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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 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
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
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

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