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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

William James

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind

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