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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

William James

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

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