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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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