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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

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