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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

William James

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely

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