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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
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
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
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

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