Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
WILLIAM JAMESProcrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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