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Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #30 on: December 10, 2015, 11:17:30 AM »
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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« Reply #31 on: December 10, 2015, 11:17:51 AM »
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
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« Reply #32 on: December 10, 2015, 11:18:16 AM »
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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« Reply #33 on: December 10, 2015, 11:18:37 AM »
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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« Reply #34 on: December 10, 2015, 11:18:58 AM »
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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« Reply #35 on: December 10, 2015, 11:19:23 AM »
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
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« Reply #36 on: December 10, 2015, 11:19:44 AM »
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.
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« Reply #37 on: December 10, 2015, 11:20:06 AM »
Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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« Reply #38 on: December 10, 2015, 11:20:26 AM »
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
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« Reply #39 on: December 10, 2015, 11:20:51 AM »
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.
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« Reply #40 on: December 10, 2015, 11:21:11 AM »
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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« Reply #41 on: December 10, 2015, 11:21:35 AM »
Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
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« Reply #42 on: December 10, 2015, 11:21:56 AM »
The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
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« Reply #43 on: December 10, 2015, 11:22:24 AM »
The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion action will.
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« Reply #44 on: December 10, 2015, 11:22:47 AM »
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.
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