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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

William James

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
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

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