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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

William James

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
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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Inspirational Motivational Positive
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
True 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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Habit Principles Thinking
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

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