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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

William James

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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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Islands Roots Sea Underground
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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
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
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical

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