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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

William James

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

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