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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere

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