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" To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. "
William James
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" The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. "
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" It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. "
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" Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. "
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" Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. "
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" The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. "
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" Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. "
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