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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men

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