Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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