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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

William James

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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith

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