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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

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
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
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
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet

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

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