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

William James

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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts

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