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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

William James

There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe People Propaganda
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

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