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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

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 question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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 cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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 education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
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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Intellectual Men Order
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical

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