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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

William James

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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