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"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"
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"The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge."

"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."

"The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology."

"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."

"Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals."

"On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character."
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