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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

William James

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics

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