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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

William James

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years

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