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

William James

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Dog Littles Writing
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self

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

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