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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

William James

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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

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