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"An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'"
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"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
"There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse."
"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."
"Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not."
"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."
"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."
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