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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

William James

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making

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