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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

William James

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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
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
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself

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