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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

William James

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
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

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