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Truth happens to an idea

William James

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing

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