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

William James

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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
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
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
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
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
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering

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