Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
WILLIAM JAMESTrue to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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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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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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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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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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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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