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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

William James

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth

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