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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

William James

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
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
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
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

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