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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
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
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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