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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

William James

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion

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