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

William James

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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

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