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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
WILLIAM JAMES

Becoming Great Focus Woods
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Alive Cost Wall
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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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Cash Experience Stream
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
WILLIAM JAMES

Destiny Men Tree
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation

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