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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its powe

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. – William James

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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. – William James

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is mans lack of faith in his true Self. – William James

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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. – William James

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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. – Orison Swett Marden

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Im a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person thats the nature of the work I do. – Joni Mitchell

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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. – Taylor Caldwell

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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew mans nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. – Robert Bork

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. – John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1851

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Im learning, but Im getting better at it because Im learning how to hear God in worship. – Michael W. Smith

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One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. – George MacDonald

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No matter how carefully you plan your life, in the end your happiness comes down to someone who one day just walked into it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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