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

William James

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical

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