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

William James

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
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use

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