"If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately."
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"Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void."
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"In business for yourself, not by yourself."
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"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."
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"So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky."
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"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."
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"If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged."
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"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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"There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise."
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"If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more."
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"To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being."
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"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
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"Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not."
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"Man lives for science as well as bread."
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"Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom."
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"The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race."
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"The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness."
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"Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!"
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"To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified."
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"The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity."
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