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“In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.”

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“Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.”

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“Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.”

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“For life is evil. Two souls are in my breast; I see the better, and in the very act of seeing it I do the worse.”

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“There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.”

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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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“Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”

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“Belief creates the actual fact.”

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“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”

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“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

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“Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.”

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